Golf: Tourism

Mark Menzies: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps he is taking to promote golfing holidays in the (a) North West and (b) UK.

Helen Grant: Golfing holidays in both the North West and the rest of the UK are promoted by VisitEngland and VisitBritain. Liverpool is using £62,500 from VisitEngland's Growing Tourism Locally programme, funded through the Regional Growth fund, to promote 'England's Golf Coast’ in the golfing press, using the staging of the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool to encourage visits to the region. VisitBritain's consumer website highlights golf courses across the whole of the UK including the Golf Coast, which also features in their Sport is GREAT pillar guide. In advance of the Ryder Cup in Gleneagles, VisitBritain has organised familiarisation trips taking American and European journalists to the course. Previous experience tells us that hosting the Ryder Cup is worth tens of millions of pounds to the UK and to the local economy.

Press

Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 24 June 2014, Official Report, column 125W, on the Press, when he expects a date for meeting victims of press abuse and their representatives to be finalised.

Edward Vaizey: DCMS, in line with Government procedure, publishes details of Ministers’ meetings with external organisations, on a quarterly basis. When published, details can be found at:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-culture-media-sport&publication_type=transparency-data

War Memorials

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding his Department has allocated to the maintenance of war memorials in each of the next three years; what steps it takes to ensure that war memorials are maintained to a high standard; and if he will make a statement.

Edward Vaizey: The DCMS-run Memorial Grant Scheme has a budget of £543,000 for this financial year. Grants are available to charities and faith groups, and can be used to repair and maintain war memorials. The Government has today announced that it will give the War Memorials Trust up to £3 million over the first world war centenary period to boost the funds available to local communities for the repair and conservation of war memorials. English Heritage, Imperial War Museums and Civic Voice will together be given £1.5 million over the same period to deliver better protection through Listing, a greater pool of specialist skills, a national register of war memorials and a network of trained volunteers.

War Memorials

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps his Department has (a) taken in each of the last three years and (b) plans to take in the next two years to ensure that war memorials are properly maintained and kept in a good state of repair; and if he will make a statement.

Helen Grant: DCMS has spent the following amounts maintaining national memorials in each of the last three years. The Memorials Grant Scheme is available to charities and faith groups, and can be used for works involving war memorials. The scheme will be available until 31 March 2015.
	
		
			  Spend (£) 
			 2013-14 529,000 
			 2012-13 269,000 
			 2011-12 334,000 
		
	
	The Government has announced this week that it will give the War Memorials Trust up to £3 million over the First World War centenary period to boost the funds available to local communities for the repair and conservation of war memorials. English Heritage, Imperial War Museums and Civic Voice will together be given £1.5 million over the same period to deliver better protection through Listing, a greater pool of specialist skills, a national register of war memorials, and a network of trained volunteers.

Business

Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when she last met the (a) CEO and (b) chair of the British Business Bank to discuss how that organisation can more effectively support Northern Ireland businesses; and if she will make a statement.

Theresa Villiers: I regularly hold discussions with representatives of the British Business Bank in my role as chair of the Joint Ministerial Task Force on banking and access to finance.
	The taskforce has discussed how Northern Ireland business benefits from the British Business Bank schemes and will continue to explore how these measures can be delivered in the most effective way in Northern Ireland.

Civil Service

Philip Davies: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office 
	(1)  how many grades there are in the Civil Service;
	(2)  if he will take steps to reduce the number of grades in the Civil Service.

Francis Maude: Arrangements for setting grades below the senior civil service (SCS) are delegated to Departments and not held centrally. For the SCS, grading arrangements are determined centrally by the Cabinet Office. There are four main grades in the SCS.
	To deliver a flatter structure in the civil service, Departments are, as set out in the Civil Service Reform Plan, reviewing their structures as part of ongoing change programmes and departmental improvement plans.

Electronic Government

Mark Menzies: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what digital-by-default Government services will be available by next year; and what support he plans to make available to older people and those who are not yet online.

Nick Hurd: By March 2015, 25 major Government services will be redesigned and rebuilt as digital-by-default making them simpler, clearer and faster to use. Full details are listed on:
	www.gov.uk/transformation
	This Government’s approach is digital-by-default but not compulsion. We want to help get more people online, through our Digital Inclusion programme, but for those who cannot or will not we will always provide assistance, whenever they need it.

Employment: Discrimination

John Denham: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office 
	(1)  which organisations funded by his Department restrict employment to members of particular faiths;
	(2)  what his Department's policy is on funding organisations that restrict their employment to members of particular faiths.

Francis Maude: All organisations funded by the Cabinet Office have to adhere to relevant employment legislation including the Equal Opportunities Act and Sex Discrimination Act.

Pearson VUE

Jim Cunningham: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which Government departments use (a) Pearson VUE and (b) Pearson Professional Centres for delivering tests; and if he will provide details of each such use.

Francis Maude: This information is not held centrally.
	Civil Service Resourcing do not use Pearson VUE and Pearson Professional Centres.

Climate Change

Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he expects the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to publish its Fifth Assessment Report.

Gregory Barker: The Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) comprises contributions from three Working Groups and a Synthesis Report. The Working Group (WG) reports on the science (WGI), impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (WGII) and mitigation of climate change (WGIII) were published in September 2013, March 2014 and April 2014, respectively. Copies of these reports are available at:
	https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/.
	The Synthesis Report is due to be completed and published at the end of the 40th session of the IPCC, 27-31 October 2014, in Copenhagen. This will complete the publication of the entire Fifth Assessment Report.

Oil

John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what mechanisms his Department has put in place to monitor the amount of available capacity in the UKOP, GPSS and MLP UK pipeline systems.

Michael Fallon: Both the UKOP and MLP pipeline systems are privately owned and operated. Currently there are no statutory provisions that require private pipeline owners and operators to make available commercial information on spare capacity.
	The GPSS is a Government owned pipeline and DECC is able to obtain information regarding available capacity on request.
	Following the recent cross- government review of the role of both the UK refining and import sectors in UK, and in recognition of pipe-line access being cited as an issue by some stakeholders, the new independently chaired Midstream Oil Government and Industry Task Force will take forward further work on this issue.

Oil

John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department has taken to ensure equality of access to the UKOP, GPSS and MLP UK pipeline systems.

Michael Fallon: Both the UKOP and MLP pipeline systems, are privately owned and operated and commercial decisions on access are taken by the companies concerned. The Pipelines Act 1962 contains provisions for owners/operators to offer third party access and for any spare capacity to be made available to anyone who wishes to apply for it.
	The GPSS is a Government owned pipeline operated by the Oil and Pipelines Agency (OPA), a public corporation sponsored by the Ministry of Defence. The OPA lets commercial contracts on a similar basis to operators of private pipelines provided these are consistent with Defence requirements. Access to the GPSS may require the agreement of private companies which control ingress points, egress points or other pipelines connected to the network.
	Following the recent cross-government review of the role of both the UK refining and import sectors in UK, and in recognition of pipeline access being cited as an issue by some stakeholders, the new independently chaired Midstream Oil Government and Industry Task Force will take forward further work on this issue.

Renewable Energy: Heating

Graham Stringer: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will provide information on the performance of those heat pumps which have been installed in domestic premises on a trial basis.

Gregory Barker: In January this year, we published a preliminary report on the renewable heat premium payment (RHPP) heat pump metering programme. This is available at:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276612/Preliminary_Report_on_the_RHPP_metering_programme_ 2014-01-31.pdf.
	This report, presents data from more than 400 heat pumps installed in domestic properties on a trial basis.

Bahrain

Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the government of Bahrain about the death of Abdulaziz al-Abbar.

Hugh Robertson: We are saddened to hear about the death of Abdulaziz Al-Abbar. We encourage the authorities to carry out a timely and thorough independent investigation.

Indonesia

Nick Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has made to the Government of Indonesia on human rights in West Papua.

Hugo Swire: In January 2014, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), raised the situation in Papua and West Papua with the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Marty Natalegewa who made clear the determination of the Indonesian Government to improve the human rights situation there.
	Most recently, in June 2014, our ambassador to Jakarta raised Papua with Indonesia’s Co-ordinating Minister for Legal, Political and Security Affairs, who reconfirmed his Government’s intention to increase autonomy for the region. Our embassy staff also visit the provinces regularly, discussing our concerns with Government officials, civil society leaders and human rights defenders. We remain concerned about reports of violence and human rights abuses, including limitations on free speech and limitations on access to the region by international non-governmental organisations, foreign journalists and diplomats.

Saudi Arabia

Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will raise the case of Fowzan al-Harbi with the Saudi Arabian government.

Hugh Robertson: We are aware of the case of Fowzan al-Harbi. We maintain a regular dialogue with the Saudi authorities on a range of human rights issues, including of human rights defenders.

St Lucia

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will take steps to ensure that the Gloria Greenwood murder and trial of the suspects is discussed during any future visit to the UK by government ministers from St Lucia.

Mark Simmonds: Consular officials remain in regular contact with the St Lucian authorities about the investigation into Mrs Greenwood’s death. We will continue to use all appropriate opportunities to press upon them the importance we place on bringing this case to trial, including ministerial visits to the UK and to St Lucia. Consular officials are keeping Mrs Greenwood’s family updated and continue to provide full consular assistance.

First TransPennine Express and Northern Rail

Alex Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what role (a) his Department and (b) local authorities will have in (i) specifying and (ii) managing the new franchises for rail passenger services on the (A) TransPennine Express and (B) Northern Rail lines.

Stephen Hammond: The specification for each franchise is being developed collaboratively by the Department for Transport’s Rail Executive and Rail North. Rail North are representing all the local transport authorities in the north of England. This is line with the partnership agreement confirmed between the Secretary of State for Transport, my right hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire Dales (Mr McLoughlin), and leaders of the local transport authorities in the north of England in January 2014. An integrated partnership structure between Rail Executive and Rail North is being developed with a view to managing the franchise once it has been let.

Rescue Services: Belfast

Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many times the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Belfast was staffed at below risk-assessed levels in (a) April 2014 and (b) May 2014.

Stephen Hammond: Belfast Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) was staffed below risk assessed levels during:
	(a) April 2014—40 occasions out of 60 shifts
	(b) May 2014—22 occasions out of 62 shifts
	Where there are specific issues at a MRCC Her Majesty’s Coastguard is using the current long established pairing arrangements between MRCCs. This enables each MRCC to be connected to at least one other MRCC which is available to provide mutual support.

Rescue Services: Stornoway

Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many times the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Stornoway was staffed at below risk-assessed levels in (a) April 2014 and (b) May 2014.

Stephen Hammond: Stornoway Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) was staffed below risk assessed levels during:
	(a) April 2014—12 occasions out of 60 shifts
	(b) May 2014—14 occasions out of 62 shifts
	Where there are specific issues at a MRCC Her Majesty’s Coastguard is using the current long established pairing arrangements between MRCCs. This enables each MRCC to be connected to at least one other MRCC which is available to provide mutual support.

Dangerous Dogs

David Crausby: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress he has made on provision for the kennelling and seizure of suspected dangerous dogs; and what changes he expects to make to the regulations on dangerous dogs.

George Eustice: On 6 February 2013 the Government announced, as part of its package of measures to tackle irresponsible ownership of dogs, that it would provide powers for the police to allow suspected prohibited type dogs to be kept with the owners in cases where they considered that the dog was not a threat to public safety. The Government is in the process of making changes to the relevant regulations to enable this power to be available to the police.

Dredging

John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many marine dredging applications have been dealt with by the Marine Management Organisation using the online marine licensing system since 2009.

George Eustice: The online marine licensing system came into force on 6 April 2011 following the formation of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) in 2010. To date the MMO have dealt with the following numbers of marine aggregate and non-aggregate dredging applications:
	
		
			  2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 
			 Aggregate dredging    25 x short term marine licences; 14 x 15 year marine licences; 
			  0 1 x 15 year dredging permission 0 7 x 15 year marine licences 1 x aggregate trial dredging 
			  0 1 0 32 15 
		
	
	Non-aggregate dredging
	There was a transitional period from 6 April 2011 to 5 April 2014 for non-aggregate dredging. This activity mainly included navigational dredging which become licensable from 6 April 2014.
	
		
			 Disposal dredged material at sea 
			  Figure 
			 2009-10 0 
			 2010-11 0 
			 2011-12 39 
			 2012-13 42 
			 2013-14 38 
			 Note: Figures represent MMO licensing up to April 2014.

Energy

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of his Department's consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

Dan Rogerson: The cost and consumption of electricity and gas purchased by Core DEFRA, for the period June 2010 to May 2014, is set out in the tables. These data are taken from monthly energy invoices for this period.
	Core DEFRA has rationalised its estate during the period covered by this report and has consolidated into fewer buildings. This is reflected in the downward trend in cost and consumption.
	All energy covered by this report was procured through Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Energy Frameworks.
	Notes:
	The data provided in this report may not be consistent with data published elsewhere because it includes consumption and costs which are normally allocated to third party occupants of DEFRA’s Buildings.
	
		
			 DEFRA Electricity Consumption 2010 to 2014 
			  June July August September October November 
			 2010-11       
			 Electricity Consumption (kWh) 562.154 579.196 533,876 534,580 540,560 571,644 
			 Electricity Cost (£) 51,185 52,665 48,950 49,038 51,621 51,592 
			        
			 2011-12       
			 Electricity Consumption (kWh) 374,614 364,075 417,440 389,990 396,394 399,602 
			 Electricity Cost (£) 38,368 37,009 43,738 39,242 45,085 46,233 
			        
			 2012-13       
			 Electricity Consumption (kWh) 371,117 396,691 379,973 362,798 397,176 375.117 
			 Electricity Cost (£) 41,762 44.420 42,410 40,332 42,927 41,107 
		
	
	
		
			        
			 2013-14       
			 Electricity Consumption (kWh) 366,049 396.691 363,186 356,532 367,484 355.698 
			 Electricity Cost (£) 44,440 44,420 43,755 36,012 38,070 43,683 
		
	
	
		
			  December January February March April May 
			 2010-11       
			 Electricity Consumption (kWh) 532,863 542,176 490,766 503,287 331,467 365,087 
			 Electricity Cost (£) 50,800 55,296 47,993 49,142 34,701 37,372 
			        
			 2011-12       
			 Electricity Consumption (kWh) 386,825 402,591 387,405 394,080 498,094 401,874 
			 Electricity Cost (£) 43,781 45.513 43,064 38,704 37,510 45,450 
			        
			 2012-13       
			 Electricity Consumption (kWh) 375,162 408,029 376,753 388,382 368,431 371,196 
			 Electricity Cost (£) 40,343 44,642 41,216 41,602 45,590 45,190 
			        
			 2013-14       
			 Electricity Consumption (kWh) 351,397 368,977 343,836 368,107 351,290 369,207 
			 Electricity Cost (£) 42,712 45.630 42,716 44,029 46,165 47,715 
		
	
	
		
			 DEFRA Gas Consumption 2010 to 2014 
			  June July August September October November 
			 2010-11       
			 Gas Consumption (kWh) 399,128 464,580 353,706 466,370 432.283 642477 
			 Gas Cost (£) 13,616 15,239 12,731 14,971 14.615 19,087 
			        
			 2011-12       
			 Gas Consumption (kWh) 89,035 116.433 77,012 133,048 264,282 346,157 
			 Gas Cost (£) 4,218 4,846 4,060 5,563 10,970 13,207 
			        
			 2012-13       
			 Gas Consumption (kWh) 83,299 73. lift 92,580 60,792 239,861 237,313 
			 Gas Cost (£) 5,120 4,620 5,596 6,962 12,064 12,255 
			        
			 2013-14       
			 Gas Consumption (kWh) 92,341 134,913 42,057 251,658 183,864 499,138 
			 Gas Cost (£) 4.573 5,881 3,113 7,818 7,961 17,960 
		
	
	
		
			  December January February March April May 
			 2010-11       
			 Gas Consumption (kWh) 938,383 783,009 616,016 ¦ 768,205 14 857 106,818 
			 Gas Cost (£) 27,086 23,001 18.493 23,282 5,025 5.103 
			        
			 2011-12       
			 Gas Consumption (kWh) 466,376 591,299 483,026 584,149 327,666 197,233 
			 Gas Cost (£) 16 691 19,385 15,634 14.642 11034 10,681 
			        
			 2012-13       
			 Gas Consumption (kWh) S70 516 327.: 17 42:545 410.775 263.816 263,729 
			 Gas Cost (£) 24,134 21,396 23,132 24.150 15.323 9,920 
			        
			 2013-14       
			 Gas Consumption (kWh) 409,595 456,987 429,920 377.971 235.014 194,273 
			 Gas Cost (£) 15.296 16.852 15,651 14,156 9,668 8,237

Organic Farming: Yorkshire and Humberside

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much land in Yorkshire was given over to organic farming in each year since 2008-09.

George Eustice: The following table shows the areas of “in conversion” and fully organic land in the Yorkshire and the Humber region from 2008 to 2013, which is the most recent year that these data are available. Data are not available just for Yorkshire.
	
		
			 Area of organic land in Yorkshire and the Humber region1 
			 Thousand hectares 
			  2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 
			 In-conversion land 4 3 1 1 1 1 
			 Fully organic land 11 12 14 13 10 10 
			 Total organic land 15 15 15 13 10 11 
			 1 Data are collected during the annual inspections of organic operators. Due to the nature of annual inspections, the data are collected at varying times throughout the year. Therefore, the data presented here does not give an exact snapshot of organic farming at any specific time of year. It should be treated with a degree of caution. Note: Please note that totals may not necessarily agree with the sum of their components due to rounding. Source: Organic Certification Bodies in the UK

Construction: Training

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he is taking to improve skill levels in the construction industry.

Michael Fallon: Under the auspices of the Construction Leadership Council, the house building industry is developing an action plan to address three immediate priorities: improving the image of house building; attracting back experienced workers who left during the recession; and attracting other workers with relevant skills.
	More widely, the Government is making a number of reforms to the skills system to improve skills supply; putting employers in the driving seat and making providers more responsive to their needs.
	The Government is also currently undertaking a triennial review of the way the Construction Industry Training Board operates and challenging it on the service it delivers to the sector.
	In addition, the Government believes that a more robust and more visible Government construction procurement pipeline is key to improving investment decisions in construction. We are working to enhance the pipeline to give construction businesses the confidence to upskill staff, to recruit, and to commit to apprenticeships.

Energy

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of his Department's consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

Jo Swinson: This information is currently being collated and I will arrange for this data to be deposited in the Libraries of the House as soon as possible.

Enterprise Zones: Coleraine

Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans UK Trade & Investment has to promote the new Enterprise Zone in Coleraine as a location for potential international investors.

Michael Fallon: UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) follows the ‘UK First’ principle when promoting inward investment. This means that we seek to promote the UK as the country of choice and propose the most suitable locations based on the inward investor's particular needs which are matched to the strengths of individual areas.
	Invest Northern Ireland promotes Northern Ireland and UKTI works together with them on potential opportunities and to highlight benefits of areas such as Enterprise Zones.

Environment Protection: Scotland

Anas Sarwar: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in how many green infrastructure projects the Green Investment Bank has invested in Scotland.

Michael Fallon: The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has helped finance energy efficiency improvements at two distilleries in Scotland and expects to finance similar projects at further distilleries soon. GIB has also financed introduction of energy efficient lighting at NCP car parks across the UK, including a number located in Scotland, and GIB is in advanced discussions with Glasgow city council to finance replacement of 10,000 old street lights in Glasgow with energy efficient LED lights, with the longer term aim of replacing up to 50,000 lights across the city. Full details about projects supported by GIB may be found on the bank’s website at:
	www.greeninvestmentbank.com

Medicine: Scotland

Anas Sarwar: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the potential effect on funding for medical research of Scottish independence.

David Willetts: The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable), has made no assessment of the effect of funding for medical research in a separate Scotland.
	The “Scotland Analysis: Science and Research” report published in November 2013 examined the current UK framework for funding, infrastructure, co-ordination and collaboration. It demonstrated that Scottish research has thrived within this system, for example, regularly receiving a higher percentage of Research Council funding when compared to UK population share.
	The same holds true for research charities. In 2011, Scotland received 13% of all investment made by members of the Association of Medical Research Charities.
	The evidence shows that being part of the UK complements and strengthens Scotland’s world-class research base.
	The UK Government’s position is clear: if Scotland left the UK, the current framework for research could not continue. The best way for research to continue to flourish in Scotland is together as part of the UK.

Science: Research

Anas Sarwar: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what his policy is on increasing the research budget for science to 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product.

David Willetts: The Government recognises that science and research is vital in driving economic growth. Our ambition is to make the UK the best place in the world to do science and research.
	In 2012, Government expenditure on science and research through the Research Councils and the Higher Education funding bodies was £4.9 billion, equal to 0.3% of GDP. In the same year, total public spending on science was 0.6% of GDP. Total UK spending on Research and Development was 1.7% of GDP.
	In the recent spending review, Government made a long-term commitment to investment in science and research infrastructure: increasing capital investment in real terms to £1.1 billion in 2015-16 and growing this in line with inflation each year to 2020-21. We also continued to protect the science resource ring fence in cash terms for financial year 2015-16. On the basis of existing commitments, the Government’s investment in science through the Research Councils and Higher Education funding bodies will be £5.9 billion1 in 2015-16, an increase in cash terms of 20% since 2012.
	1 Cash terms including additional spending announced in AS13 and Budget 14.

Tax Avoidance: British Virgin Islands

Adrian Sanders: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent discussions he has held with his counterpart in the British Virgin Islands on tax evasion and avoidance in that country; and if he will make a statement.

David Gauke: The Treasury engages in regular discussions with the British Virgin Islands on tax issues, including avoidance and evasion.
	Following the commitments made at the G8 the British Virgin Islands, along with all of the UK's Overseas Territories with financial centres and the Crown Dependencies have taken significant steps forward on tax transparency putting them at the forefront of this agenda globally.

Tax Collection

Adrian Sanders: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what changes have been made to the methodology for assessing compliance yield for tax collection in the last 10 years.

David Gauke: It is important that HMRC’s methodology for assessing the effects of its compliance activities reflect the full range of impacts of its activities on customer compliance. Both to provide accountability for its overall performance and to manage its business and the performance of its compliance teams on a day-to-day basis. HMRC periodically refines its methodology for compliance yield to reflect the latest evidence. This is consistent with recommendations from the NAO and PAC.
	Changes at the start of this Government were implemented to better assess the total impact of HMRC’s work. Some reduced the revenue HMRC could score, while others recognised that HMRC were achieving a greater impact on future taxpayer behaviour than they had previously assumed.
	Key changes to scoring rules at the start of the 2010 Spending Review period were:
	1. Ensuring reported performance better reflects the amount of revenue that HMRC can expect to receive
	2. Recognising the revenue effects of work against criminals
	3. Refining our methodology to reflect our latest understanding of the effects of our interventions on customers’ behaviour in the future.
	Further information on HMRC’s compliance methodology will be set out in its Annual Report, which will be published in due course.

Employment and Support Allowance: Preston

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many claims for employment and support allowance submitted by people in Preston in 2013 have yet to be determined.

Michael Penning: We have interpreted the question to be for the number of employment and support allowance (ESA) and incapacity benefits reassessments (IBR), work capability assessments (WCA) which are still to be decided in 2013, for Preston local authority and this information is shown in the following table:
	
		
			 ESA WCA assessments still in progress in Preston local authority January 2013 to September 2013 
			  No. 
			 New claims—initial assessments 200 
			 New claims—repeat assessments 100 
			 Incapacity benefit re-assessments — 
			 Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. “—” denotes nil or fewer than 50. Source: Data in the tables above is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.

Employment Schemes: Young People

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was spent on the Youth Contract in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.

Esther McVey: The spend on Youth Contract since it was launched in April 2012 is as follows:
	
		
			  £ million 
			 2012-13 85.8 
			 2013-14 210.3

Independent Living Fund

Kate Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how his Department plans to monitor the effect of changes in the Independent Living Fund on individual recipients; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Penning: As stated in the Equality Analysis published on 6 March, the Department will be developing plans for evaluating the impact of the closure on former users of the Independent Living Fund.

Pension Credit: York

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  how many people in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York Unitary Authority area received pension credit in the last year for which data is available;
	(2)  how many people in (a) the city of York local authority area and (b) York Central constituency were in receipt of (i) the basic state pension and (ii) pension credit in 2008-09 and in each year since; and what the average weekly value of pension credit received was in each case during those periods.

Steve Webb: Statistics for state pension and pension credit are available from 100% data and are published on the Department’s website at:
	http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/pc/tabtool_pc.html
	and
	http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/sp/tabtool_sp.html
	Guidance for users is available at:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance

Personal Independence Payment

Heidi Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps are being taken to better identify those personal independence payment claimants who could be assessed solely on the basis of evidence without the need for face-to-face assessments.

Michael Penning: We are working with our providers to ensure that all PIP claims received are reviewed and where sufficient evidence is available at that initial review we may make a decision on the claim without the need for a face-to-face consultation. Where a face-to-face consultation is needed or further evidence must be gathered, the assessment provider will undertake that activity.

Personal Independence Payment: Preston

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many claims for personal independence payments submitted by people in Preston in 2013 have yet to be determined.

Michael Penning: Figures on the number of personal independence payment (PIP) claims outstanding are not available.
	However a breakdown of the statistics published on 5 June 2014 show that during April to December 2013, 820 PIP new claims were registered and 250 decisions were made for individuals living in Preston local authority.1
	1Source:
	PIP Computer System claimant records
	There are several reasons why a new claim could be registered and awaiting a decision. For example, the claimant is waiting to receive or has not yet returned their PIP 2 How your disability affects you form, the claimant is awaiting their assessment appointment date, the DWP have not yet made a decision on the claim, or the claimant has told DWP that they wish to withdraw their claim.

Universal Credit

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when and where his Department plans to next introduce universal credit.

Esther McVey: Universal credit is now available in 19 live sites across England, Scotland and Wales, and is continuing to roll out across the north-west of England. See link to the Press Notice published on 20 June 2014:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/news/north-west-universal-credit-expansion
	In total 90 Jobcentres, or one in eight Jobcentres in Britain, will offer the service once the north-west expansion has been completed.

Universal Credit

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many universal credit claimants have been sanctioned in each month since October 2013.

Esther McVey: The information requested is not currently available.
	The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on universal credit (UC) in September 2013 which can be found at:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics

Universal Credit

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many universal credit claimants have become ineligible for the benefit as a consequence of increased income since October 2013.

Esther McVey: The information requested is not currently available.
	The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on universal credit (UC) in September 2013 which can be found at:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics

Valuation of Life and Health Interdepartmental Group

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will place in the Library a copy of the Health and Safety Executive's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008.

Michael Penning: The submission will be placed in the Library shortly.

Valuation of Life and Health Interdepartmental Group

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the explicit monetary value per quality-adjusted life was in the context of Workplace accidents and regulation, as quoted as part of the Health and Safety Executive's submission to Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.

Michael Penning: In response to a review of departmental valuation practices conducted for the Interdepartmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health in 2008, HSE submitted a summary of a regulatory impact assessment (RIA) of the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005. In this appraisal, HSE applied a value of £42,000 per quality adjusted life year (2005 prices), derived from the Department for Transport’s Value of a Prevented Fatality (VPF) (£1.4 million in 2005), to assess the health benefits of reduced noise exposure at work. This value was derived specifically for the appraisal of the Noise at Work regulations. The full RIA is published on the HSE website:
	http://www.hse.gov.uk/noise/noise.pdf
	HSE routinely applies the VPF, with adjustment, in an annual report of the costs of work-related injuries and ill health. The most recent report, Costs to Britain of workplace fatalities and self-reported injuries and ill health, 2010/11, is published on the HSE website
	http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/pdf/cost-to-britain.pdf
	An accompanying methodology report describing HSE’s current approach to valuing the impacts of work-related injuries and ill health is also available on the HSE website:

Work Capability Assessment

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department is taking to reduce the backlog of work capability assessments.

Michael Penning: We are working closely with Atos to deliver the best possible service for claimants and ensure the number of cases outstanding with them continues to fall.
	We announced last summer that we were looking to bring in further provision to support the delivery of the work capability assessment. In the meantime, we have been working closely with Atos to improve their performance and have put in place changes to better manage the flow of work between the Department, all designed to reduce waiting times for claimants. These measures are taking effect and the backlog of cases has fallen over the past few months.

Public Expenditure

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education on how many occasions ministerial authorisation has been granted for expenditure which exceeded his Department's internal efficiency control thresholds for (a) advertising, marketing and communications, (b) consultancy and (c) external recruitment; and what the (i) purpose and (ii) value of any such agreed expenditure has been in the last 12 months.

Elizabeth Truss: The Department for Education has its own internal efficiency controls thresholds and complies with the Cabinet Office controls.
	1. Advertising, Marketing and Communications expenditure above the Departmental threshold of £100,000 is submitted to Efficiency and Reform Group at Cabinet Office for final clearance.
	2. Consultancy expenditure above £20,000 (and is a new contract expected to exceed nine months, an existing contract to be extended beyond nine months or is expenditure for procurement related consultancy) is submitted to Cabinet Office for final clearance.
	3. Cabinet Office is not directly involved in recruitment approvals.
	The approved expenditure requests which have exceeded Departmental thresholds are published on a quarterly basis on the Department’s website:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/approved-exemptions-to-the-efficiency-controls

DNA: Databases

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many successful matches there have been between DNA profiles taken from crime scenes and those stored on the national DNA database in each of the last two years.

Karen Bradley: The requested data is shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Crime scene to crime scene matches1 Crime scene to subject matches 
			 2012-13 1,247 24,894 
		
	
	
		
			 2013-14 1,410 24,953 
			 1Data source: NDNAD management information. If one crime scene matches to several subject profiles, only one match is counted. Only new matches are counted—if a crime scene has produced a match in a previous year, then matches again in 2012-13, it is not counted. Where several crime scene profiles are obtained from one crime, resulting in several matches, it is counted as one crime with a match. These figures are for matches from routine searching of profiles. Offence types are recorded by forensic staff processing the DNA sample and do not correspond to police recorded crime codes.

Domestic Violence

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the TecSOS system for high risk victims of domestic abuse; and what plans she has to rollout the programme to other areas of the country.

Norman Baker: The report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) on the police response to domestic abuse, published in March 2014, clearly set out the importance of using new technology to help protect victims of domestic abuse. Whilst it is an operational matter for chief constables on procuring technology, we are aware that the TecSOS system is used by 16 police forces across England and Wales.
	Through the National Oversight Group, set-up and chaired by the Home Secretary to drive delivery against the HMIC recommendations, the Government is ensuring that best practice on the use of new technology, like TecSOS, is identified and shared so that the policing of domestic abuse is robust.
	As part of its commitment to support high risk victims of domestic abuse, the Government part-funds 144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisors and 54 Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference co-ordinator posts. This funding amounts to £3.4 million per year.

Energy

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of her Department's consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

Karen Bradley: Electricity and gas cost and consumption data for each month since June 2010, for those buildings (excluding sponsored ALBs) where the Department is directly invoiced for energy, is provided in the following table. Data for financial year 2014-15 is not yet available.
	
		
			 Monthly electricity and gas cost and consumption data since June 2010 to date 
			    2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 
			 January Gas kWh — 1,862,985 1,886,579 2,446,044 2,161,027 
			   £ — 53,019 72,170 88,224 77,188 
			  Elec kWh — 4,502,519 4,132,372 3,933,006 3,809,931 
			   £ — 448,896 407,677 406,473 447,262 
			         
		
	
	
		
			 February Gas kWh — 2,004,444 2,672,946 2,412,556 1,956,215 
			   £ — 59,183 99,266 106,906 68,806 
			  Elec kWh — 4,206,913 4,063,684 3,655,461 3,456,015 
			   £ — 411,163 385,456 386,001 404,495 
			         
			 March Gas kWh — 442,141 1,448,182 2,539,303 1,720,441 
			   £ — 98,712 58,506 92,095 61,275 
			  Elec kWh — 4,544,779 4,323,043 3,870,338 3,577,708 
			   £ — 411,442 402,293 415,873 413,262 
			         
			 April Gas kWh — 569,897 1,231,576 1,489,393 — 
			   £ — 27,112 52,821 51,201 — 
			  Elec kWh — 4,335,114 3,826,278 3,757,760 — 
			   £ — 438,003 415,828 439,266 — 
			         
			 May Gas kWh — 938,280 967,011 834,039 — 
			   £ — 38,980 79,897 32,565 — 
			  Elec kWh — 4,306,364 4,244,849 3,750,300 — 
			   £ — 439,858 454,402 438,121 — 
			         
			 June Gas kWh 311,118 822,044 659,160 488,519 — 
			   £ 13,945 35,325 31,091 23,043 — 
			  Elec kWh 5,278,782 4,377,736 4,106,200 3,841,666 — 
			   £ 422,494 479,630 434,936 446,712 — 
			         
			 July Gas kWh 308,117 305,171 696,281 318,348 — 
			   £ 30,821 28,853 43,465 16,657 — 
			  Elec kWh 5,545,133 4,581,490 4,450,078 4,520,539 — 
			   £ 472,730 459,876 479,946 521,657 — 
			         
			 August Gas kWh 411,714 380,853 418,754 279,305 — 
			   £ 17,971 22,437 18,935 12,258 — 
			  Elec kWh 5,094,744 4,574,442 4,560,612 4,300,566 — 
			   £ 436,809 453,845 481,571 495,638 — 
			         
			 September Gas kWh 503,295 450,457 599,067 393,035 — 
			   £ 21,105 25,267 25,208 16,810 — 
			  Elec kWh 4,883,891 4,341,778 3,930,782 3,883,045 — 
			   £ 427,102 425,084 426,692 447,864 — 
			         
			 October Gas kWh 923,079 800,558 1,126,662 1,008,343 — 
			   £ 28,623 36,315 43,855 37,417 — 
			  Elec kWh 4,843,055 4,252,840 4,085,297 3,995,271 — 
			   £ 438,204 430,531 418,188 465,962 — 
			         
			 November Gas kWh 1,749,439 1,330,511 1,525,794 1,982,680 — 
			   £ 49,178 53,846 57,032 69,984 — 
			  Elec kWh 4,706,972 4,317,892 3,880,980 3,745,355 — 
			   £ 432,945 450,434 400,807 437,260 — 
			         
			 December Gas kWh 2,996,545 1,911,221 2,059,677 1,960,387 — 
			   £ 79,999 72,767 75,407 69,189 — 
		
	
	
		
			  Elec kWh 4,718,749 4,089,519 3,814,350 3,750,061 — 
			   £ 422,899 397,159 386,689 430,847 — 
			 Note: Monthly figures are affected by seasonal variations and credit notes issued when converting estimated to actual meter readings.

Human Trafficking

Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 25 April 2014, Official Report, column 717W, on human trafficking, what tailored support is given to victims who have received a Conclusive Grounds decision to safely return home; to which countries such victims returned in January to March 2014; and if she will make a statement.

Karen Bradley: Currently, there is no specific return and reintegration package for those who have received a positive Conclusive Grounds decision and wish to return home. The Assisted Voluntary Returns package is available to nationals of non-EEA countries. Where possible and appropriate to do so, the Government will work with host countries’ Government agencies to ensure that the victim receives adequate support.
	Information pertaining to the countries to which victims returned via the AVR programme is not collated centrally and would require a detailed examination of case files in order to extract such data.
	Between January and March 2014, The Salvation Army recorded that 30 individuals, in their care, returned to their country of origin. These were:
	
		
			 Country of origin Count 
			 China 1 
			 Czech Republic 2 
			 Hungary 3 
			 Latvia 3 
			 Lithuania 4 
			 Poland 1 
			 Romania 9 
			 Slovakia 4 
			 Sri Lanka 1 
			 Congo 1 
			 Uganda 1 
			 Grand total 30 
		
	
	Care and support for victims, once they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds decision is being considered as part of the review of the National Referral Mechanism and as part of the re-tender of the Government’s victim support service.

Human Trafficking

Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 25 April 2014, Official Report, column 717W, on human trafficking, what information her Department holds on the current safety of victims who received Conclusive Grounds decisions and returned home in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March 2014; and if she will make a statement.

Karen Bradley: The Government does not hold information on the whereabouts of victims once they have left the victim support service.
	Care and support for victims, once they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds decision is being considered as part of the review of the National Referral Mechanism and as part of the retender of the Government’s victim support service.

Human Trafficking

Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will ensure that the regulations governing the new contract for the specialist support providers allow bids to provide ongoing care and support once victims exit the shelter service, at the end of the 45 days period irrespective of whether they have received a Conclusive Grounds decision.

Karen Bradley: Once they receive a positive Reasonable Grounds decision, potential victims of trafficking are entitled to a minimum of 45 days’ care and support which can continue up to the point they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds decision, whichever is the later. Article 12 of the European Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings requires the UK to provide a minimum of 30 days’ support for victims of human trafficking. The current UK Government policy goes further than the European Convention on Action against Trafficking obligations by providing a minimum of 45 days support once a Reasonable Grounds decision is made.
	Care and support for victims, once they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds decision, is being considered as part of the ongoing review of the National Referral Mechanism and as part of the retender of the Government’s care contract for adult victims of human trafficking.

Offences against Children: Internet

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information her Department holds on how many UK-based registered users of the paedophile file sharing network website boylover.net have been identified by international authorities in (a) the US and (b) Holland; what proportion of those was passed to UK authorities for investigation; what steps her Department is taking to trace those registered users; and if she will make a statement.

Norman Baker: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 19 June 2014, Official Report, columns 666-667W. Following two linked international investigations into the boylover.net website, information was provided to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) by US authorities and Europol that related to UK-based registered users. CEOP was, at that time, an affiliate of the Serious Organised Crime Agency. We do not maintain a record of the number of UK-registered users of the website identified by United States or Dutch authorities, nor of what proportion of those users were passed to CEOP. However, as a consequence of the information provided and through CEOP’s own investigations, 240 intelligence packages were prepared and subsequently disseminated to police forces across the UK. Further information regarding charges, convictions and open investigations is handled at a local level by the relevant police force and is not recorded nationally.

Pay

Nick Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which organisations collect subscriptions through the employers' payroll service in her Department and its agencies.

Karen Bradley: The Ministry of Justice Payroll Services make deductions from salary on behalf of the Home Office and its agencies staff for the 42 organisations listed in the following table.
	This does not include salary sacrifice schemes offered internally, by the Home Office. The cross indicates those that had deductions collected in May 2014.
	
		
			 Name Paycode Main HO DBS HMPO 
			 Affinity Select INS S 558 X — — 
			 Aig Europe UK 505 X — — 
			 Benenden Health 518 X X X 
			 BHCA Health Shield 617 X — X 
			 Birmingham Hosp 504 X X X 
			 Bupa Cash Plan 580 X — — 
			 C and E Club Wales 502 X — — 
			 Charity For CS 508 X X X 
			 CS Club 510 X — X 
			 CS Med Aid Ass 514 X — — 
			 CS Sports Council 520 X X X 
			 CUST Fund 503 X — — 
			 CUST Fund Ins 515 X — — 
			 Engage Mutual Ass 631 X — — 
			 Family Friendly 603 X X X 
			 First Div Ass 536 X — — 
			 Forester Health PSY 582 X X X 
			 GMB 542 X — — 
			 Gwent Hosp 544 — — X 
			 Health Scheme Hull 566 X — — 
			 Healthsure Group 574 X — X 
			 HO Bootle SP Soc 559 X X — 
			 HO Golf Society 633 X X — 
			 Hosp Sat Fund 562 X — X 
			 Hosp Sav Ass Sin 565 X — — 
			 Hosp Sav Assn 564 X — X 
			 Immigration Union 568 X — X 
			 IPMS Prospect 570 X — — 
			 Leeds and Dist 572 X X X 
			 Medicash 578 X X X 
			 NPS Med Cash Plan 586 X X X 
			 PCS 592 X X X 
			 Peterborough PO SP 588 X — X 
			 PSLA Ass 604 X — — 
			 Simply Health 576 X — — 
			 SOV Pers Acc Plan 611 X — X 
			 SOVER Health Care 609 X — — 
			 Sunlife (Friends Life) 614 X — X 
			 TGWU 615 X — — 
			 Unison 579 X — — 
			 Welsh Hosp 635 X — — 
		
	
	
		
			 Westfield Hlth Sch 639 X — X

Standford Hill Prison

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the police hunt for Michael Wheatley who absconded from HM Prison Standford Hill on 3 May 2014.

Damian Green: This information is not held centrally.

UK Border Agency

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many contract or temporary employees were employed in (a) the Case Resolution Directorate and (b) the Case Assurance and Audit Unit in each year of those bodies' existence; and what proportion of the overall staff of such bodies were contract or temporary employees.

Karen Bradley: The Case Resolution Directorate (CRD) employed a total of 350 temporary staff during the summer 2011. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of how many contract/ temporary employees were employed for each year that CRD was in existence.
	The Case Assurance and Audit Unit (CAAU) employed 98 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in 2011, 134 FTE staff in 2012 and 224 FTE staff in 2013. It is not possible to break this down by how many were contract/temporary employees or employed full-time. FTE means that part-time employees are counted by the proportion of full-time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of an equivalent full-time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.

UK Visas and Immigration

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many contract or temporary employees are employed in the older live cases unit; and what proportion of the overall staff count are contract or temporary employees.

Karen Bradley: There were 208 full-time equivalent (FTE) temporary agency workers employed on OLCU casework at the end of Q1 2014, this was equal to 62.7% of the overall staff at the time. FTE means that part-time employees are counted by the proportion of full-time hours they work, so that staff working half the time of an equivalent full-time colleague would count as 0.5 FTE.

Verne Prison

David Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brent Central of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 445W, on HMP Verne, in which prison establishment for how long each person detained has been held.

Karen Bradley: It is not possible to provide detail of how long those held in prison establishments have been detained without the examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.

Abortion

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  what research his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) evaluated since May 2010 on the number of women who died following complications from a legal abortion; when his Department last undertook an evidence review of the number of women who died following complications from a legal abortion that drew on (i) UK and (ii) international research; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  how many women are known to have died within one month of operations for termination of pregnancy notified under the Abortion Regulations 1991 in each year since 1984; what cause of death was recorded on the death certificate in each case; and if he will make a statement.

Jane Ellison: The most comprehensive information about a death following an abortion is published in the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) (previously known as the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health).
	
		
			 Maternal deaths associated with termination of pregnancy; United Kingdom 1985-2008 
			 Triennium1 Number of deaths from termination of pregnancy 
			 2006-08 20 
			 2003-05 1 
			 2000-02 5 
			 1997-99 2 
			 1994-96 1 
			 1991-93 5 
			 1988-90 3 
			 1985-87 1 
			 1 Data is collected for each three year period. 2 The report also reviews the deaths of two women who died from sepsis following termination of pregnancy and one death associated with cocaine misuse interacting with anaesthesia. 
		
	
	Cause of death recorded on death certificates for women who died following an abortion is not reviewed by the Department. The Maternal, Newborn and Infant Clinical Outcome Review Programme which now oversees CEMD is funded by the Department and other organisations. CEMD take account of all relevant United Kingdom and international research in their work. Data for 2009-12 is due to be published in December this year and annual updates will be produced in the future.

Alcoholic Drinks: Labelling

Virendra Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to support calorific labelling on alcoholic drinks.

Jane Ellison: Energy labelling of alcoholic drinks is regulated by the European Union. The EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation allows voluntary energy labelling for alcoholic drinks pending a European Commission report on nutrition labelling and ingredient listing on alcoholic drinks, which we expect later this year. The Government supports mandatory energy declarations, and we will continue to press for this to be included in any new legislative proposals.

Breast Cancer

Anas Sarwar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government is taking to reduce the number of avoidable deaths from breast cancer.

Jane Ellison: The Cancer Outcomes Strategy set out our ambition to save an additional 5,000 lives per year by 2014-15 and is backed with more than £750 million, including more than £450 million to achieve early diagnosis by improving public awareness of the symptoms of cancer and improving access to key diagnostic tests.
	Public Health England, working with the Department and NHS England, ran a national Be Clear on Cancer campaign on breast cancer in women over 70. The campaign aimed to improve awareness of the signs and symptoms of breast cancer and urge people with relevant signs and symptoms to visit their general practitioner promptly.
	Screening is an important way to detect cancer early and the national health service Breast Screening Programme (BSP) invites women aged 50 to 70 every three years. We want to expand the NHS BSP so that more women can make the important choice to take part, so the programme is currently being extended to women aged 47-49 and 71-73 as part of a major research trial. Results on the impact of the extension on breast cancer mortality will be known in the early 2020s.

Cancer

Nicholas Dakin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  what plans (a) his Department and (b) NHS England have to capture the experiences of cancer patients outside hospital settings;
	(2)  what plans NHS England has to conduct the National Cancer Patient Experience survey in 2015.

Jane Ellison: NHS England now has responsibility for the Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES) and advises that it plans to continue the survey in 2015.
	Although the sample for the CPES is drawn from those who have had treatment for cancer within a hospital, the questionnaire also asks many questions about the patient’s experience outside of hospital too. For example, the initial process around diagnosis, interactions with a cancer nurse specialist (which may be outside of a hospital setting), home care and support, community nurses and care from their general practitioner. From this, it is possible to learn what the experience of cancer patients has been both inside and outside of a hospital setting.

Care Homes: Disability

Julian Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions his Department has had with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure.

Norman Lamb: The Department has not had any recent discussions with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure.
	The new Care Act, which will come into force in 2015, will give local authorities a core duty to promote their local market, with a particular focus on ensuring diversity, quality and sustainability which, importantly, will mean there should be sufficient high quality services available to meet the needs of individuals in their local area.
	The Department has worked with stakeholders, including provider organisations, to develop draft statutory guidance to support the implementation of the Care Act. The guidance will describe how local authorities must meet these new duties, including encouraging sustainability through appropriate fee levels. The draft guidance was published as part of a 10-week public consultation on the full package of regulations and guidance under part 1 of the Care Act on 6 June.
	The Government believes that people who wish and who are able to live in their communities, rather than in an institutional care setting, should be given the support they need to do so.

Dementia

Mark Menzies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make available additional funding to improve care for people with dementia.

Norman Lamb: Improving dementia care is a priority for the Government, and the Prime Minister. On the 28 February, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health announced his ambition for improving dementia care and support for people with dementia, their family and carers.
	NHS England has identified around £90 million annually that is available nationally to the National Health Service to support timely diagnosis of dementia and to ensure that by 2015, two-thirds of people with dementia have a diagnosis and receive appropriate support following diagnosis.
	The Department has committed to double funding for research for dementia by 2015.
	The Department has also provided major funding to improve dementia care for the following:
	Dementia Friends programme, £2.4 million funded by Cabinet Office and the Department;
	Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) £54 million in April 2012 and £108 million in April 2013;
	Dementia Friendly Environments Capital Fund £50 million, October 2012;
	Dementia Awareness Campaign £3.2 million, September 2012;
	Dementia Workforce Development Fund for Social Care Staff (administered by Skills for Care) £2.4 million July 2012. In addition to this we have funded further Workforce Projects to the value of £1,640,000 since 2012-13 (£540,000 in 2012-13, £700,000 in 2013-14 and £400,000 planned for 2014-15);
	Breakthrough Innovation Challenge Prize £1 million announced, June 2012; and
	Social Services support to Memory Services £10 million, September 2011.

Dementia

Ivan Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions his Department has had with its counterparts in Northern Ireland ahead of the Global Dementia Legacy event in London on 19 June 2014.

Norman Lamb: Senior officials from each of the devolved Administrations are members of the Dementia Steering Group (International) and were involved and aware of plans for the UK Global Dementia Legacy event. They were also invited to attend the event. Ministers were not invited, senior officials were sent a formal invitation.
	There were no discussions between the Secretary of State for Health, the right hon. Member for South West Surrey (Mr Hunt), and his ministerial counterparts. Senior officials in the devolved Administrations were involved in discussions via their participation in the Dementia Steering Group (International).
	Ministers from across the United Kingdom signed up to the Blackfriars Consensus to prevent and delay dementia, which was announced at the UK Global Legacy event.

Health Services

Nicholas Dakin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will promote the roll-out of the values and behaviours of the six Cs beyond nursing, midwifery and care staff.

Daniel Poulter: We recognise that the 6Cs—Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment—the values and behaviours of the ‘Compassion in Practice, Nursing, Midwifery and Care Staff, Our Vision and Strategy’, published in December 21012, to deliver high quality companionate care and to achieve excellent health and well-being outcomes, are contributing to improved patient and staff experience and safety.
	Many trusts have signed up and rewritten their organisational strategy around the 6Cs and other health professionals have adopted the 6Cs into their practice across the national health service and social care.
	During the past 12, the number of Care Makers—who act as ambassadors for the 6Cs—has continued to flourish and there are currently more than 1,200 throughout England. Care Makers have expanded beyond nursing, midwifery and care family, to include other professions such as allied health professionals, doctors, chaplains and commissioners.
	To ensure that this significant cultural change is developed across all NHS and social care professions, NHS England is hosting an event (on 4 July), for senior leaders from the NHS and social care, clinical and non-clinical, in conjunction with the Clinical Leaders Network. Attendees include patient advocates, representatives from partners including the Hospital Caterers Association and clinical colleagues who have actively engaged with the 6Cs and are eager to promote their spread and uptake among other disciplines.
	The event aims to act as a springboard for individuals and organisations that are interested in listening to and sharing learning and good practice to engage their workforces to embed the values of the 6Cs across all professions and levels in health care practice.

Mental Health Services: Ethnic Groups

Diane Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  if he will assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the conclusions of Delivering race equality in mental health care: An action plan for reform inside and outside services published in 2005; what his Department's strategy is for reducing inequalities in Black and minority ethnic patients' access to, experience of, and outcomes from mental health services; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  what proportion of beds in (a) residential mental health facilities and (b) psychiatric wards in NHS hospitals in England are occupied by black and minority ethnic people.

Norman Lamb: The Delivering Race Equality in mental health care programme, a five-year Department of Health programme launched in January 2005, was developed to address inequalities in patient admission, detention and experience of services.
	The 2010 document ‘Race Equality Action Plan: A five-year review’ looks back at the work of the Delivering Race Equality in mental health care programme and describes some of the key challenges, successes and learning. A copy of ‘Race Equality Action Plan’ has been placed in the Library.
	Our mental health Strategy, ‘No Health Without Mental Health’states that the ‘Race Equality Action Plan’ provides a strong base from which commissioners and service providers can make improvements. These will rely on:
	local collection and monitoring of information on ethnicity and culture;
	better use of these data to inform commissioning and provision in health and social care;
	a focus on outcomes that work for individuals and communities;
	monitoring and evaluating effectiveness of service delivery, especially around equality needs; and
	establishing mechanisms that allow local user groups to engage with providers and commissioners, and that empower and support them so that they can engage effectively.
	Additionally, our new mental health action plan, ‘Closing the Gap’sets out our priorities for essential change in mental health: 25 areas where people can expect to see and experience the fastest changes. The fourth priority is that we will tackle inequalities around access to mental health services. We know that people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities have to date been less likely to use psychological therapies.
	Which is why we are working with the Race Equality Foundation and other stakeholders to try and understand why this is the case and to understand inequalities around access to other services. NHS England are also working with BME community leaders to encourage more people to use psychological therapies.
	The Ministerial Working Group on Equality in Mental Health has been established to support the Mental Health Equality work-stream of the Mental Health Strategy programme. The group will report to the Mental Health Strategy Ministerial Advisory Group. This will help to ensure that equality issues directly inform strategy implementation and enable the Government to fulfil their duties under the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act.
	Information on the number of open hospital spells, the number of occupied beds on a single day as a proxy for beds available, broken down by ethnicity is provided in the following table.
	
		
			 Number of people in adult mental health in-patient services at the end of March 2014 
			 Ethnicity Broad Ethnicity group People with an open hospital spell Proportion of people with an open hospital spell (percentage) 
			 Total — 23,246 100 
			 British White 16,435 70.7 
			 Irish White 272 1.2 
			 Any Other White Background White 987 4.2 
			 White and Black Caribbean Mixed 262 1.1 
			 White and Black African Mixed 69 0.3 
			 White and Asian Mixed 84 0.4 
			 Any Other Mixed Background Mixed 179 0.8 
			 Indian Asian or Asian British 336 1.4 
			 Pakistani Asian or Asian British 385 1.7 
			 Bangladeshi Asian or Asian British 174 0.7 
			 Any Other Asian Background Asian or Asian British 318 1.4 
			 Caribbean Black or Black British 865 3.7 
			 African Black or Black British 645 2.8 
			 Any Other Black Background Black or Black British 614 2.6 
			 Chinese Other Ethnic Groups 60 0.3 
			 Any Other Ethnic Group Other Ethnic Groups 386 1.7 
			 Not Stated Not Stated 569 2.4 
			 Invalid Data Supplied Invalid Data Supplied 23 0.1 
			 Unspecified Unspecified 92 0.4 
			 Not Known Not Known 491 2.1 
			 Source: M12 2013/14 MHMDS, Health and Social Care Information Centre

NHS: Recruitment

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS health trusts have (a) recruited and (b) advertised for staff outside the UK since 1 January 2013.

Daniel Poulter: The Department does not hold information on national health service trusts that have recruited or advertised for staff outside the United Kingdom since 1 January 2013.
	It is the responsibility of local NHS organisations to plan and deliver a work force appropriate to the needs of their local population, based on clinical need and sound evidence.
	The nature of the NHS labour market means that supply shortages in specific specialisms and geographies do exist. It is likely that some overseas recruitment will be necessary to support the qualified work force supply; however, the NHS now has many more health care professionals, and is much closer to self-sufficiency—in line with World Health Organization recommendations.

Prostate Cancer

Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the Government has spent on prostate cancer research in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Daniel Poulter: The following figures provide an annualised estimate of Government funding for prostate cancer research, provided by the National Cancer Research Institute Cancer Research Database 2009 to 2013.
	
		
			  Prostate cancer (£) 
			 2009 7,895,544 
			 2010 7,158,048 
			 2011 7,095,581 
			 2012 9,484,685 
			 2013 8,276,039 
		
	
	These figures include only direct spend on prostate cancer research, or spend which directly supports prostate cancer research; it does not include fundamental research that could have implications for prostate cancer in the longer term.

Respiratory System

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps so that Public Health England introduces a case-finding spirometry test component as part of the NHS Health Check for people aged between 40 and 74.

Jane Ellison: Public Health England (PHE) is responsible for advising the Department on potential content changes to the NHS Health Check programme. The agency has established an Expert Scientific and Clinical Advisory Panel to oversee this process. The panel includes representation from the National Screening Committee, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and wider experts.
	It is not feasible to make frequent changes to the programme. PHE reviews new content proposals every 12 months and will consider spirometry when it next begins this process in the winter of 2014.

Respiratory System: Diseases

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding will be designated for basic and applied research into respiratory disease in 2014-15; and if he will make a statement.

Daniel Poulter: The Department's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funds a range of applied clinical research, but does not fund fundamental laboratory-based research, which is funded by other organisations including the Medical Research Council (MRC) and medical research charities.
	The usual practice of the NIHR and of the MRC is not to ring-fence funds for expenditure on particular topics: research proposals in all areas compete for the funding available.
	The Department's NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including respiratory disease. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and the national health service, value for money and scientific quality. In all disease areas, the amount of NIHR funding depends on the volume and quality of scientific activity.
	Spend on research funded directly by the Department’s NIHR from 2010-11 to 2012-13 in respiratory disease is shown as follows. The complete information on NIHR spend in 2013-14 is not currently available. These figures do not take account of NIHR expenditure on research infrastructure and systems where spend cannot be attributed to health categories.
	
		
			 £ 
			 Health category 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 
			 Respiratory 18,192,188 20,234,850 24,692,314

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  for what reasons his Department’s Outcomes Strategy for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases and Asthma in England, published in 2011, does not include an implementation programme timetable; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  if he will make it his policy to continue to fund a regular national audit of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and if he will make a statement.

Jane Ellison: NHS England intends to continue to fund the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) audit as part of the NCAPOP (National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme).
	The COPD and asthma outcomes strategy was published by the Department around the time of the national health service transition to the current structures. It was designed to help NHS commissioners understand the key evidence based and cost effective interventions which would improve the quality of care for patients with COPD. As such, it was not intended to be supported by an implementation plan.
	In May 2012, the Department published the NHS Companion Document to the Outcomes Strategy, setting out how the NHS can implement changes at a local level.

Social Services: Disability

Julian Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the availability of a range of housing and care options for people with physical disabilities and learning difficulties.

Norman Lamb: The Department has not made any assessment about the availability range of housing and care options for people with physical and learning disabilities.
	A key aim of this Government is to put people with disabilities, including learning disabilities, and the families who care for them, in the driving seat with greater choice and control and able to contribute to and influence decisions which affect their lives, including over where and with whom they live.
	The Care Act puts into law a series of reforms to care and support, making it a modern system which is built around people’s individual needs and goals, and which puts them in control of their own care and support. The Act will help to improve care and support for everyone who uses care and support services, by placing personal budgets onto a statutory footing as part of the care and support plan. These reforms will allow people to exercise real choice and control over the care and support they receive, and are supported by new duties around market shaping and information and advice, to ensure that people fully understand the care system and have a wide range of high quality services available in their local area to choose from.
	Housing plays a critical role in helping adults with physical and learning disabilities to live as independently as possible. The Department is providing £315 million over five years for the Care and Support Specialised Housing fund. The fund is administered by the Homes and Communities Agency and, within London, by the Greater London Authority. The main aim of the fund is to support and accelerate the development of the specialised housing market for older people and disabled adults, which includes housing for adults who are physically disabled and those with learning difficulties.

Social Services: Learning Disability

Grahame Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adults with (a) autism and (b) learning disabilities accessed care and support under the Fair Access to Care Standards eligibility criteria in (i) Easington constituency, (ii) County Durham, (iii) North East England and (iv) the UK in each year since 2010.

Norman Lamb: The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) does not collect any data on the number of adults with autism accessing care and support under the Fair Access to Care Services eligibility criteria nor does it collect any data on the number of adults with learning disabilities accessing care and support in the Fair Access to Care Services eligibility criteria.
	The revised guidance “Prioritising need in the context of Putting People First: A whole system government approach to eligibility for social care” which came into effect in April 2010, replaces the Fair Access to Care Services guidance issued by the Department in 2003. A copy of the revised guidance has already been placed in the Library.
	HSCIC has been able to provide the number of clients with learning disabilities receiving services each year since 2010 as follows:
	
		
			 Number of learning disability services users receiving services provided or commissioned by a Council with Social Services Responsibilities (CSSR) 
			   2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 
			 North East Darlington 313 323 330 335 
		
	
	
		
			  Durham 1,895 1,933 1,972 1,990 
			  Hartlepool 326 335 334 335 
			  Stockton-on-Tees 507 505 515 560 
			  County Durham total 3,041 3,096 3,151 3,220 
			  North East England total 8,627 8,737 8,953 8,764 
			       
			  England total 141,761 142,455 144,130 144,831

Universal Credit

Chris Bryant: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to Healthy Start vouchers and vitamins to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.

Daniel Poulter: We plan to provide access to Healthy Start for pregnant women, new mothers, and children under four in the lowest earning families receiving universal credit. Our intention is to ensure that a broadly similar number, and range, of universal credit families will qualify as currently do so through income based benefits and tax credits.
	The current annual delivery cost of Healthy Start throughout the United Kingdom (vouchers, vitamins and administration) is approximately £100 million. We estimate that if eligibility were extended to pregnant women, new mothers, and children under four in all families claiming universal credit it would increase the total spent annually to around £290 million.

Valuation of Life and Health Interdepartmental Group

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost-per-quality adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of the Health Protection Agency's work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008;
	(2)  what the explicit monetary value per quality-adjusted life was in the context of 'Evaluation of new pharmaceutical products or medical devices', as quoted as part of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's submission to Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008;
	(3)  if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008;
	(4)  if he will place in the Library a copy of the Health Protection Agency's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008;
	(5)  if he will place in the Library a copy of the Food Standards Agency's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008;
	(6)  if he will place in the Library a copy of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and all evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's staff conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds in 2008;
	(7)  what the explicit monetary value per quality-adjusted life was in the context of Interventions and Regulations, as quoted as part of his Department's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008;
	(8)  what the explicit monetary value per quality-adjusted life was in the context of Advice on Nuclear power, centre for infections and modelling, as quoted as part of his Department's submission to the Inter-Departmental Group from the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008;
	(9)  what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost-per-quality adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of his Department's work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008;
	(10)  what monetary thresholds were applied to the cost-per-quality adjusted life year quoted in the evidence submitted as part of the Food Standards Agency's work with the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review in 2008.

Daniel Poulter: I refer my right hon. Friend to the answer given on 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 283W.

Whyndyke Farm

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what amount has been spent on building the psychiatric facility at Whyndyke Farm to date; and when that facility will become fully operational.

Jane Ellison: This is a matter for the national health service locally.
	We have written to Derek Brown, Chair of the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust informing him of the hon. Member's inquiry. He will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.

Civil Partnerships Dissolution

Therese Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make it his policy that civil partnerships can be dissolved at any county court.

Shailesh Vara: As of 22 April 2014, the County court no longer has the jurisdiction to consider divorce or civil partnership dissolution applications. These are now considered by the Family Court.
	Hearings in divorce and civil partnership dissolution cases are rare, but from April 2015 if a hearing is required then it can be accommodated at any Family Court venue with the appropriate judicial expertise.

Community Rehabilitation Companies

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  if he will publish the list of preferred bidders for the Tier 1 Community Rehabilitation Company contracts;
	(2)  when the preferred bidders under the Transforming Rehabilitation process will be announced; when winning bidders will be announced; and when winning bidders will take over the running of the Tier 1 Community Rehabilitation Company contracts.

Jeremy Wright: Bids to run the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies are expected by the end of June, with contract winners being announced by the end of 2014. We will announce the list of preferred bidders when the evaluation has been concluded. We are committed to the roll out of payment by results by 2015.

Courts: Children

Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the NSPCC's Order In Court campaign seeking change changes to the way the criminal justice system treats children.

Damian Green: The Ministry of Justice is committed to protecting and supporting child witnesses to help give their best evidence. In doing so, we have equipped the majority of Crown courts and magistrates courts with facilities to enable vulnerable witnesses to give evidence by secure video link from an alternative location to the trial court. We are exploring ways to increase the use of video links, including in cases involving vulnerable and intimidated victims and witnesses.
	We are also working with other criminal justice agencies to improve the uptake of Registered Intermediaries for child and other vulnerable witnesses. I am grateful to the NSPCC, whose campaign will assist in raising awareness.
	Specialist training for judges is the responsibility of the judiciary and the Judicial College.

Courts: Video Conferencing

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many remote sites for giving evidence in court are open in each region of England and Wales.

Shailesh Vara: We must do everything we can to support vulnerable witnesses and help them give their best possible evidence to bring offenders to justice. That’s why we are trialing pre recorded cross-examination to allow young and vulnerable witnesses to give evidence away from what can be an aggressive court room atmosphere. This is on top of a range of measures to help reduce the anxiety of attending court, including giving evidence behind a screen. We will continue to explore ways we can use remote links and new technology to help witnesses give evidence from outside the court building.
	The following table sets out the number of courthouses in each of the seven HMCTS Regions in England and Wales. These facilities enable any victim or witness to appear by video link from a different court location to that of the trial court; it is also possible for third party users to access the court system through a secure bridge.
	
		
			 HMCTS Region Number of courthouses enabled for remote video link. 
			 Wales 22 
			 London 32 
			 South East 52 
			 South West 35 
			 Midlands 40 
			 North West 31 
			 North East 37 
			 Total 249

Data Protection

Steve Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for the Justice what discussions she has had with the Lord Chancellor on the introduction of section 77 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 in relation to data protection offences; and if she will make a statement.

Simon Hughes: I am not aware that any discussions have taken place between the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, the right hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), on the introduction of s77 of the Criminal Justice Act 2008 (CJIA). The Ministry of Justice will liaise with all interested Government Departments before deciding whether to consult on introducing section 77 (CJIA) and commencing the enhanced public interest defence under section 78 (CJIA).

Driving Offences: Insurance

David Ward: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will take steps to increase the penalties for uninsured drivers.

Jeremy Wright: Sentencing in individual cases is entirely a matter for our independent courts and they must follow sentencing guidelines issued by the independent Sentencing Council.
	The Government announced on 12 May this year that it intends to carry out a review of the offences and maximum penalties available for a range of driving offences. This will include offences involving uninsured drivers.

Freedom of Information

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make it his policy to regularly provide details on private sector bodies who collaborate with public sector bodies on projects which are subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Simon Hughes: The Government already provides details of private sector bodies who work under contract with the Government. Since January 2011, as part of the Government's transparency programme, details of contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder;
	https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder

Mediation

Ben Bradshaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of cases in which compulsory mediation and information meetings would have been appropriate in 2013-14; and what funding is being made available in 2014-15 to provide that service.

Simon Hughes: We do not have the data to allow us to assess how many family court applications filed in 2013-14 might have been appropriate for a Mediation Information and Assessment Meeting (MIAM) in comparison with the number of MIAMs actually attended. In 2013/14 13,354 couples attended a publicly funded MIAM (that is, where at least one of the parties was legally aided).
	Implementation of the Children and Families Act 2014 on 22 April 2014 means that attendance at a MIAM is now compulsory for the potential applicant.
	Public funding (legal aid) remains in scope for family mediation for those who qualify on means and merits, and the budget for legal aid for mediation is uncapped. In 2013/14, the LAA spent £9m on mediation. If one party is funded the other will be covered for the MIAM as well. Legal help with mediation is also available for the funded party and includes help from a lawyer with applying to the court for a consent order based on the agreement reached in mediation.

Powers of Attorney

Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  if his Department will strengthen levels of protection of elderly and vulnerable people by allowing the Office of the Public Guardian to investigate abuses of power of attorney in cases where these powers have been revoked;
	(2)  what steps he will take to introduce safeguards to power of attorney to better protect elderly and vulnerable people from abuses of that power;
	(3)  how many successful prosecutions for abuse of power of attorney were brought forward in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement;
	(4)  what steps he is taking to increase levels of protection for elderly and vulnerable people who fall victim to abuse of power of attorney;
	(5)  if his Department will take steps to expand the investigatory powers of the Office of the Public Guardian to better protect elderly and vulnerable people in cases in which power of attorney is abused; and if he will make a statement.

Simon Hughes: The Government is committed to protecting elderly and vulnerable people, and to ensuring that anyone responsible for abuse is dealt with appropriately.
	The Public Guardian has power to investigate cases where concerns are raised about the actions of a person acting under a power of attorney, and to apply to the Court to revoke the power of attorney where necessary to prevent abuse. The Public Guardian will refer cases to health and care authorities, who can act under statutory safeguarding powers to protect an individual who may be at risk, and to the police if he suspects a criminal offence has been committed.
	We are currently considering whether the Public Guardian needs additional powers to strengthen his role in safeguarding elderly and vulnerable people, including the power to continue an investigation after a power of attorney or court order has been revoked or disclaimed. This would require changes to primary legislation.
	Data on prosecutions for fraud, or for ill-treatment and neglect under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, do not specify whether the allegation relates to a person acting under a power of attorney. The Government’s response to the House of Lords Select Committee’s report on the Mental Capacity Act includes a commitment to review the use of the criminal offence under s44 of the Act.

Prisoners

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice 
	(1)  how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Whitemoor spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which figures are available;
	(2)  how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Winchester spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which figures are available;
	(3)  how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Wolds spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which figures are available;
	(4)  how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Wood Hill spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which figures are available;
	(5)  how many hours per week prisoners in HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs spent (a) in cells and (b) working in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such prisoners were classed as unemployed on the latest date for which figures are available.

Jeremy Wright: Up until the end of 2011-12, information was collected on the average hours per weekday that prisoners were unlocked. By subtracting the average hours unlocked from the 24 hours in a day, it is possible to estimate hours spent locked in cell. Figures for each prison establishment for the three years from 2009-10 to 2011-12 have been placed in the Library of the House.
	It should be noted that time in cell includes hours when prisoners are asleep. Time unlocked includes time where a prisoner is either out of their cell or where the cell door is unlocked allowing them to move freely in and out of the cell.
	Time unlocked was discontinued as a performance indicator for prisons at the end of 2011-12 because it was not used in the day-to-day management of prisons and NOMS had concerns over the burden on the front-line of collecting the data. Indicators introduced into prison SLAs in respect of rehabilitation, resettlement and work in prisons provide a better demonstration of efforts to prepare prisoners for release and reduce reoffending.
	Figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. Figures for time in cell for the year 2012-13 and 2013-14 could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
	Work in prisons is a key priority to ensure prisoners are engaged purposefully while they are in custody. It also gives them the opportunity to learn skills and a work ethic which can increase their chances of finding employment on release, a key element to reducing reoffending.
	The number of prisoners working in industrial activity across public sector prisons increased from around 8,600 in 2010-11 (the first year for which figures are available) to around 9,700 in 2012-13. This delivered an increase in the total hours worked in industrial activities from 10.6 million hours to 13.1 million hours. Private sector prisons have also been supporting this agenda and have reported that they delivered over 1.5 million prisoner working hours in commercial and industrial workshops in 2012-13 which provided work for over 1,200 prisoners. In addition, there are substantial number of prisoners who work to keep prisons running on tasks such as cooking, serving meals, maintenance and cleaning.
	Figures for public sector prisons are published in the NOMS Annual Report Management Information Addendum, available at:
	https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/225225/mi-addendum.pdf
	The establishment-level breakdown of weekly hours worked is not available centrally for 2011-12 and 2012-13 and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
	Information on the proportion of prisoners classed as unemployed is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
	Our reforms to the incentives and earned privileges national policy framework came into effect in adult prisons on 1 November 2013. Prisoners will be expected to engage in purposeful activity, as well as demonstrate a commitment towards their rehabilitation, reduce their risk of reoffending, behave well and help others if they are to earn privileges.

Witnesses

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of active registered intermediaries that would be required to allow all vulnerable witnesses to have access to such support in court.

Damian Green: We must do everything we can to support vulnerable witnesses and help them give their best possible evidence to bring offenders to justice. The Ministry of Justice is actively looking at ways to increase the provision and uptake of special measures, in particular the use of registered intermediaries to help vulnerable witnesses give their best evidence in court. Since 2009, 98% of requests for a registered intermediary have been matched by the Witness Intermediary Service.

RAF Leuchars

Menzies Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when the (a) Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, (b) 2 Close Support Battalion REME and (c) 110 Provost Company RMP are scheduled to move to Leuchars; how many military personnel make up each unit; and how many (i) spouses and (ii) school-age children are attached to each unit.

Mark Francois: The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Royal Scots DG) and 2 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (2 CS Bn REME) are due to relocate to RAF Leuchars during the summer of 2015, whilst 110 Provost Company (110 Pro Coy), Royal Military Police, will arrive in tranches from late 2015 to 2018.
	The number of personnel, spouses and school aged children are as follows:
	
		
			 UNIT Personnel Spouses Children (0-4) Children (5-16) 
			 Royal Scots DG 404 141 118 151 
			 2 CS Bn REME 263 108 53 91 
			 110 Pro Coy 138 38 30 35 
			 Total 805 287 201 277 
		
	
	Dependents data is subject to change due to inflow and outflow of personnel to and from the units and has been estimated for planning purposes.
	Fife Education Authority has visited the units in Germany and are in regular contact with officials regarding the number of children relocating to RAF Leuchars.

RAF Leuchars

Menzies Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what items of infrastructure have been (a) commissioned for installation and (b) installed at RAF Leuchars in preparation for the arrival of Army units and associated personnel; and how much each such item (i) is estimated to and (ii) has cost.

Mark Francois: It is expected that over £5 million of investment will be made at RAF Leuchars to prepare for the arrival of Army units. This work is in the final stages of planning, we hope to begin the work soon.

World War II: Anniversaries

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 
	(1)  how much funding has been allocated for commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  if he will provide funding to refurbish war graves and war memorials (a) in the UK and (b) overseas as part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the ending of the Second World War; and if he will make a statement;
	(3)  with which countries his Department has (a) held discussions and (b) plans to hold discussions on (i) joint events and (ii) a UK presence at overseas events to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the ending of the Second World War; when any such discussions (A) took place and (B) are due to take place; and if he will make a statement;
	(4)  how many officials in his Department are engaged (a) full-time and (b) part-time in preparations to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; and if he will make a statement;
	(5)  if he will make it his policy to apply a motif on all his Department's commemorative items and events associated with the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; and if he will make a statement.

Anna Soubry: Following the very successful commemorations to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day we will now be focusing in more detail across Government on how the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war in 2015 might be marked in an appropriate manner. I expect an announcement to be made later in the year.